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T-Mobile Approximately 15 million T-Mobile customers and credit applicants had their records stolen after hackers stole information from its credit verifier, Experian, said T-Mobile CEO John Legere. People who applied for a credit check or device financing from T-Mobile between September 1, 2013, and September 16, 2015, had their information stolen, according to a note…
In his impassioned address in the wake of Thursday’s horrible shooting at an Oregon community college, President Obama issued a challenge to the media. “Have news organizations tally up the number of Americans who’ve been killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and the number of Americans who’ve been killed by gun violence, and post those side by…
Matthew Keys with his defense team. Image: Sarah Jeong A defense lawyer for Matthew Keys, a journalist charged with helping Anonymous “hack” the LA Times website, told a jury on Tuesday that his client was not guilty because he neither intended to cause damage, nor actually caused the amount of damage that the government…
His name is Emilio Mayfield and we now know that moments before he was confronted, assaulted, and arrested by police on the morning of Wednesday, September 16, he was catching public transportation to his local school. In his first interview after the brutal and excessive assault, Mayfield opened up about what happened on that Stockton,…
Entry Text NEW YORK — Carl Stubbs, 63, stood outside New York City Council chambers Wednesday in anticipation of the council’s vote on the Fair Chance Act — a bill that would delay when many of the city’s private sector employers can ask job applicants about their criminal history. “I feel [that] being black, having…
As so often happens, a government attempt to quash the use of technology it doesn’t like has made that tech more popular than ever. A week after the Department of Homeland Security intimidated a New Hampshire public library into shutting down its Tor relay, about a dozen other libraries nationwide have shown interest in running…
via filmingcops.comA video posted to YouTube shows a teenager at the San Joaquin Downtown Transit Center in Stockton, California, being hit in the face with a baton by a police officer before eight other cops join him to slam the teen to the ground and arrest him. The video was also posted to Facebook, by Edgar Avendaño, who wrote that he saw a police officer…
On Tuesday, a Facebook user in Stockton, California uploaded a disturbing viral video showing a large group of police officers violently forcing a 16-year-old student to the ground. The teen’s alleged offense? Jaywalking. “The kid got stopped for ‘jaywalking’ when he barely stepped out of the bus he was 2 feet away from the sidewalk,”…
The funeral for Harris County Sheriff Deputy Darren Goforth was held Sept. 4 in Houston. After Goforth was fatally shot at a gas station on Aug. 29, some spoke about a “war on cops.” But while 2014 did see more officer deaths than 2013, one expert says that’s not a sign of a statistically significant…
Definitive proof that ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed is smarter than police officers who arrested him Sep 16, 2015 8:38am PDT by Shaun King 51 65 Please log in or sign up to continue. On September 14, ninth-grade engineering whiz and NASA fanboy Ahmed Mohamed was confronted, interrogated, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed after bringing a homemade clock…